# Iqaluit, NU - 0030 27May09 - a compelling view of my parking lot **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 28, 2009, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iqaluit-nu-0030-27may09-a-compelling-view-of-my-parking-lot/497906 "2009-05-28T04:41:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2009, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iqaluit-nu-0030-27may09-a-compelling-view-of-my-parking-lot/497906/21 "2009-05-30T19:10:58Z")
> [@Nunavut\_Boy](#): > > We need everybody here. The Nunavut job site does state “All candidates must be eligible to work in Canada.” So there’s that. [job site.](http://www.gov.nu.ca/hr/site/jobs/index.shtml) They are implementing a new territorial electronic health record program in the next year and are supposed to be hiring a shitload of IT people for that pretty soon. IT? :: interested look :: It’s not like I’m doing anything else… So… uh… what kind of internet connections are there? ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iqaluit-nu-0030-27may09-a-compelling-view-of-my-parking-lot/497906/22 "2009-05-31T02:23:15Z")
> [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](#): > > Do they need any IT people there? Would they be willing to hire foreigners? I have some Inuit ancestry but I was raised in Michigan solely by mom who’s mostly white. How recent is your Inuit ancestry? Parliament recently passed some amendments to the citizenship act that make it easier for people to claim Canadian citizenship - I don’t know the details, but **Frank** may be able to give more info, based on this thread: [Waking up Canadian](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=514536). ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2009, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iqaluit-nu-0030-27may09-a-compelling-view-of-my-parking-lot/497906/23 "2009-05-31T13:33:52Z")
Here’s an article from the Wall Street Journal about it: [Canada Issues a Wake-Up Call: You May Be a Citizen](http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123993183347727843.html?mod=yhoofront), which **Frank** linked to in his thread. ---
**Author:** ![Das\_Glasperlenspiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/das_glasperlenspiel/32/2944_2.png) [@Das\_Glasperlenspiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Das_Glasperlenspiel)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2009, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iqaluit-nu-0030-27may09-a-compelling-view-of-my-parking-lot/497906/24 "2009-06-01T15:17:11Z")
> [@Nunavut\_Boy](#): > > [http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/4651/img0341.jpg](http://img505.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img0341.jpg) > > I could’ve gotten a better shot of the bay if I’d walked outside…but it’s cold and I don’t want to. Our windows are tinfoiled. Is that the Capital Suites? I stayed there for a week in 2007 - in April. I was supposed to be there for only four days - ended up getting blizzarded in. It was snowing so hard, I couldn’t see across the parking lot and had to take a taxi to my meeting which was only 1/2 block away. I was so grateful for my Snow Goose Arctic parka and my army-surplus mukluks! Being from Ottawa via Northern Ontario and the Prairies, I thought I was used to cold but Iqaluit is in a different category entirely!! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iqaluit-nu-0030-27may09-a-compelling-view-of-my-parking-lot/497906.md?page=1)